The phrase "an attempt to categorize" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing efforts to classify or organize information, ideas, or objects into specific groups or categories.
Example: "The researcher made an attempt to categorize the various species based on their habitat and behavior."
Alternatives: "an effort to classify" or "a try to organize".
The present review is an attempt to categorize and discuss the available evidence with regard to the BDNF and retinal diseases.
We have made an attempt to categorize heterogeneity models and performance metrics so as to have better understanding and to facilitate a more uniform platform for developing and comparing such algorithms.
Table 1 represents an attempt to categorize and compare different types of mesocosms and also compare with open field studies, thus giving a rough overview of which type of basic tool should be the best choice for a given research question.
Her review slips into a wobbly ballet of approach-avoidance, trotting out a few shaky critical strategies in an attempt to categorize Rich's late and early work.
The staging of tooth development is an attempt to categorize changes that take place along a continuum; frequently it is difficult to decide what stage should be assigned to a particular developing tooth.
In an attempt to categorize the degree of exposure to each type of animal, respondents were asked to estimate the time they spent with each.
Physical and psychological violence often overlap in practice, making any attempt to categorize different forms of violence very difficult.
As a first attempt to categorize tumours based on their hypoxic profile, three different hypoxia patterns are described.
In a recent attempt to categorize patients with hyperkalaemic periodic paralysis, three clinical subgroups were proposed depending if patients presented without myotonia, with clinical or EMG myotonia or with paramyotonia congenita (Charles et al., 2013).
Ms. Doniger even includes an appendix (too brief) that provides one scholar's attempt to categorize bedtricks ("A woman creates an identical double to avoid a man's bed" is one; "A man masquerades as another man to sleep with a woman" is another).
